Ju Li

Education

Honors and awards

• Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2018 in Materials Science field
• Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2014, among 147 scientists worldwide in Materials Science category based on papers published between 2002–2012, and among “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014”
• Lee Hsun Young Scientist Lecture Series on Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Chinese Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation Chang Jiang Scholar Award
• TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award
• Technology Review TR35 award
• National Academy of Engineering U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium co-sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Materials Research Society 2006 Outstanding Young Investigator Award
• Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award 2006
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2005
• Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Medalist 1998
• MIT Nuclear Engineering Department Manson Benedict Fellowship 1996–1997

  Selected publications

• J Li, KJ Van Vliet, T Zhu, S Yip, S Suresh, Atomistic mechanisms governing elastic limit and incipient plasticity in crystals, Nature 418, 307-310
• J Feng, X Qian, CW Huang, J Li, Strain-engineered artificial atom as a broad-spectrum solar energy funnel, Nature Photonics 6, 866-872
• X Qian, J Liu, L Fu, J Li, Quantum spin Hall effect in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, Science 346, 1344–1347
• L Suo, W Xue, M Gobet, SG Greenbaum, C Wang, Y Chen, W Yang, Y Li, J Li, Fluorine-donating electrolytes enable highly reversible 5-V-class Li metal batteries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201712895